Harley Quinn — Season 3 Premiere Recap

Eric B. Jones
Film Cut
Published in
3 min readAug 16, 2022

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The HBO Max animated series is back with more mayhem for its third season.

Harley Quinn’s second season ended with her and Poison Ivy driving off into the sunset, finally realizing their romantic feelings towards each other. So how does season three kick-off for the new power couple of Gotham? The aspect of character development is one of Harley Quinn’s greatest strengths. The first season begins with Harley working her way to establishing herself as a villain in her own right after her breakup with The Joker. The second season pushes that further while Harley navigates a Batman-less Gotham City. So now we enter season three with HarlIvy (their couple name) officially together, so is there anywhere else to go?

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The answer is yes! There is plenty of areas to traverse for the series. Now that Harley and Ivy are together, growth and development come with a new relationship. The first three episodes of the new season do just that in establishing that there’s work beyond the honeymoon phase. One way the show demonstrates this is how both women’s personalities operate. Harley is, of course, wild and exuberant about where she and Ivy are. She’s bursting with excitement and making large…

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Eric B. Jones
Film Cut

Fan of the movies. Writing to show my perspective on the artform I grew up loving.